Cardenas isabel de castilla biography
When Isabel de la Rosa i Lòpez de Cárdenas was born in 1537, in Medina del Campo, Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain, her father, Juan Mateo de la Rosa..
November 26 – How a Catholic Queen gave Spain its Golden Age
Queen Isabella I (“The Catholic”)
Queen of Castile; born in the town of Madrigal de las Altas Torres, 22 April, 1451; died a little before noon, 26 November, 1504, in the castle of La Mota, which still stands at Medina del Campo (Valladolid).
The death of Queen Isabella the Catholic.
On December 13, 1474, Isabel of Trastámara assumed the throne as Queen of Castile.
Painted by Eduardo Rosales
She was the daughter of John II, King of Castile, by his second wife, Isabella of Portugal. Being only a little more than three years of age when her father died (1454), she was brought up carefully and piously by her mother, at Arevalo, until her thirteenth year.
Her brother, King Henry IV, then took her, together with her other brother, Alfonso, to his court, on the pretext of completing her education, but in reality, as Flórez tells us, to prevent the two royal children from serving as a standard to which the discontented nobles might rally.
The Castilian nobles had been constantly incre